Providing load balancing and failover for forms merge jobs using OM Plus

If you have multiple servers in your Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture system, then you can use OM Plus for load balancing and failover. OM Plus is advanced print management software available from Plus Technologies.

1. Click the E-Forms tab.

2. Do the following on a computer connected to the Lexmark Distributed Intelligent Capture system:

   1. Use OM Plus Define Destination to create an OM Plus destination for the forms printer on each server, using the IP address of each server and the port number of the forms printer for the destination device. Select termserv as the destination mode for each destination.

   2. Use OM Plus Dynamic Class Maintenance to create a dynamic class that includes all the newly created destinations.

   3. In the Printers folder, create an input queue. For more information, see Creating input queues for forms printers.

   4. Use Link Windows Printer & OM Plus to create a link between the input queue and the OM Plus dynamic class that includes the input destinations.

3. If you are using the Print action for the forms printer, and you want to load balance multiple output printers using OM Plus, then do these steps on each server computer:

   1. Use OM Plus Define Destination to create an OM Plus destination for each output printer. Select netprint as the destination mode for each destination.

   2. Use OM Plus Dynamic Class Maintenance to create a dynamic class that includes all the newly created destinations.

   3. Use Link Windows Printer & OM Plus to create a link between the existing output queue and the OM Plus dynamic class that includes the output destinations.